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Banning Company Records
Manuscripts
The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning. After 1920, with the final dissolution of the company, business papers are in the names of William Banning or Hancock Banning individually. Subject matter in the collection includes: land in Southern California (Wilmington, San Pedro, Pasadena, Compton, Newport Beach, and Los Angeles), Santa Catalina Island, Railroads (Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, and the California Pacific), Inter-urban lines (Los Angeles Inter-urban and the Pacific Electric), Los Angeles harbor, the petroleum industry, the city of Yuma, Arizona, and Fort Yuma, California. Persons represented in the collection include: Adelaida Banning, Anne Ophelia Banning, Hancock Banning (1865-1925), Hancock Banning (b. 1892), Joseph Brent Banning, Phineas Banning, William Banning, William L. Banning, Thomas Robert Bard, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Charles Frederick Crocker, F.S. Douty, T.H. Goodman, Winfield Scott Hancock, Eldridge Edwards Hewitt, J.W. Horter, William Gates LeDuc, Hayden McLellan, George Smith Patton (1856-1927), Albert Alexander Polhamus, George Hugh Smith, and Walter Vail. There are also materials in the collection related to the following businesses and organizations: the Central Pacific Railroad Company, Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company, Los Angeles and Independece Railroad Company, Los Angeles Trust Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the Mayor and Common Council of the city of Yuma, Arizona.
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Banning Company Record of Property
Manuscripts
The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning.
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Banning Wool Company Record Book
Manuscripts
The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning.
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Banning Company Records, Addenda I
Manuscripts
The collection consists of business papers and correspondence related to the the Banning Company and its subsidiaries, particularly the Santa Catalina Island Company, as well as personal papers and correspondence created by members of the Banning, Patton, Glassell, Shorb, Thornton, and Thompson families. The business correspondence primarily focuses on the Bannings, and includes references to professional conflicts among the Banning brothers, the Santa Catalina Island Company, the Wilmington Transportation Company, the San Gabriel Wine Company, Mormon Island and surrounding areas, financial issues, and land sales. There are also 20 letters written between Henry E. Huntington and George S. Patton (1856-1927) from 1903-1905, and which relate to land in the San Marino area. The personal correspondence consists of letters between members of the Banning, Patton, Glassell, Shorb, Thornton, and Thompson families written in Alabama, California, Georgia, Virginia, and West Virginia. Family correspondents include Ellen Banning Ayer, Frederick Ayer, Anne Ophelia Smith Banning, Hancock Banning (1865-1925), Joseph Brent Banning, Katharine Stewart Banning, Lucy Tichenor Banning, May Alice Banning, Mary Hollister Banning, Phineas Banning, William Banning, Ynez Shorb Buck, Eliza Thompson Fry, Cornelia Fry, Charle Gibbs, E. Thornton Gibbs, Eliza Williams Patton Gilmer, Andrew Glassell (1793-1873), Andrew Glassell 1827-1901), Hugh Glassell, Susan Thornton Glassell, Maria Hamilton, Frances Hawes, Ramona Yorba Shorb Murtaugh, Mary Banning Norris, Ruth Wilson Patton, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Daniel Shorb, Donald Shorb, Joseph Campbell Shorb, Norbert N. Shorb, Ettinge Hugh Smith, George Hugh Smith, Susan Glassell Patton Smith, Edith Shorb Steele, Burkett D. Thompson, Caroline Thompson, Philip Rootes Thompson Jr., Rootes Thompson, William Thornton Thompson, Eleanor Brown Thompson Thornton, and George A. Thornton.The financial records include personal accounts, budgets, tax returns, business statements (including those for the Wilmington Transportation Co.), and receipts belonging to members of the Banning family. Personal papers include school essays and poems by the Banning children; copies of George S. Patton's accounts of his experiences in World War II; correspondence, essays, and photographs of the restoration of "The Old Mill" (El Molino Viejo), c.1965-1969; maps showing Banning harbor properties near Wilmington, San Pedro, and Los Angeles Harbors; sketches made on board the "Hermosa" in 1889; and photographs of steamships. Santa Catalina Island Co. business records include annual statements, notes on a potential sheep farming business, records of the steamers "Cabrillo" and "Hermosa," memorandum on management and policies, land papers, and receipt books. Some materials also relate to the Catalina Yacht Club. Items related to Catalina Island in general include advertising ephemera, a scrapbook, copies of magazine articles, and miscellaneous printed materials. Also included in the collection are various newspaper clippings, printed items, and ephemera.
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Banning Company Records, Addenda II
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence, business and financial papers, family notes, bound volumes, and ephemera related to the Banning family and collected by Katharine Stewart Banning. It includes most of her original notes on family traditions (particularly Christmas), and genealogy. The correspondence consists primarily of family letters, and correspondents include Ellen Banning Ayer, Frederick Ayer, Elizabeth Lowber Banning, George Hugh Banning, Hancock Banning (1865-1925), Joseph Brent Banning (1861-1920), Katharine Stewart Banning, Phineas Banning, William Banning (1858-1946), William Lowber Banning, William Phineas Banning, Beatrice Ayer Patton, and George Hugh Smith. The legal, land, and financial papers include contracts, deeds, titles, and statements of account for Banning properties in and around Los Angeles. The miscellaneous manuscripts include sewing instructions from the American Red Cross, notes on Santa Catalina Island, and some photographs, as well as copies of printed articles on the life of Phineas Banning. Volumes include "Memories of Phineas Banning" (c.1895-1909), a Yale scrapbook belonging to Joseph Brent Banning Jr. (1889-1969) with accompanying ephemera, a Virginia Military Institute yearbook (1914) owned by Hancock Banning Jr. (1892-1982) with accompanying photographs, embossed volumes used to copy stories and poems and owned by Ellen Barrows Banning (Ayer) and May Alice Banning (1876), a Banning Rancho log book (1889-1894), various family scrapbooks assembled by Katharine Stewart Banning, various notes on "Bill's Comfort Bag for Soldiers and Sailors" (c.1917-1941), and Katherine's Los Angeles Children's Hospital notebooks, as well as a diary she kept while traveling to England aboard the Lusitania in 1914. Also included in the collection are various published books owned by the Bannings and miscellaneous ephemera.
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